OLED flat light sources are approaching the values of conventional lighting solutions.

A silk garment printed with LEDs using Elumin8 technology that turns the intimate breath of the wearer into pulses of light was exhibited at the Back Gallery Project in Vancouver, Canada.

Eleven technology led projects will focus on developing advanced solar photovoltaic (PV) technology manufacturing processes and products.

US based company Konarka Technologies has published the performance of highly efficient inkjet printed organic bulk heterojunction solar cells.

Newspaper printing-like processing, the key to making next generation lighting technology low cost and commercially viable.

The vibrant new printed electronics industry is being created as energetically in Germany as anywhere else in the world.

Bed sheets with built in sensors are being developed so that heart patients can take a more proactive role at home in the treatment and management of their condition thereby reducing the overall healthcare costs in the EU.

Versatile, serviceable design enhances efficiency and allows for 5x higher resolution than possible with screen printing.

These very affordable hand held devices and tiny tags permit items, people and animals to be located in 3D and, where necessary, electronically ring fenced.

What a difference a year makes. RFID progress from highlights at the IDTechEx RFID Smart Labels USA event.

Webbing that wraps around the heart could free patients from a lifetime of anti-rejection drugs.

Jim Mellon has invested in Emerging Metals Ltd in the UK. He says photovoltaics will be

Ciba has developed a deep red phosphorescent OLED emitter that functions optimally in combination with the Novaled PIN OLEDT technology, delivering a lifetime of 50,000 hours at an initial brightness of 1,000 cd/m2.

The photovoltaic business is fragmenting as it grows to tens of billions of dollars yearly. Conventional silicon will be around for at least ten years but the many large new market segments that are opening up will be served by the new photovoltaics.

It sounds like science fiction but smart paint may be available in the near future.

OTTI, the East-Bavarian Technology Transfer Institute, will host an experts' forum on printed electronics 3-4 March in Regensburg, Germany.

A stretchable, flexible self-cleaning device that can be used as a mobile phone or keyboard that harvests solar energy and senses the environment by using nanotechnology was launched this week.

China was the world's largest RFID market in 2007 on the back of the huge city card schemes and the $6 billion national ID card scheme, all now largely completed.

Further to our article of yesterday regarding news of printed RFID at Smart Labels USA in Boston February 20-21, this event also included Vubiq, Nano eprint and PolyIC.